{"id":741,"date":"2026-04-11T20:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/?p=741"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:57:55","slug":"whats-at-stake-in-the-battle-for-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesilknews.com\/en\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/whats-at-stake-in-the-battle-for-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s At Stake In The \u201cBattle For Hungary\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sunday\u2019s parliamentary elections in Hungary have been described by RT as the \u201cBattle for Hungary<\/a>\u201d due to the huge stakes involved for the EU, Ukraine, the US, and to a lesser extent, Russia. The first three have also sought to influence voters, the EU and Ukraine via various forms of meddling that include concocting Russiagate<\/a> conspiracy<\/a> theories<\/a> and even attempting to blow up Hungary\u2019s main gas pipeline<\/a>, and the US through Trump\u2019s and Vance\u2019s endorsement<\/a> of incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EU\u2019s interest in \u201cdemocratically deposing\u201d Orban is ideological since he\u2019s a conservative-nationalist opposed to the liberal-globalist agenda that the bloc wants to impose onto Hungary. The opposition\u2019s chief economic advisor is Shell\u2019s former Vice President for Mobility Istvan Kapitany, and it was explained here<\/a> how he wants to succeed where George Soros failed. In a nutshell, the EU considers Hungary under Orban to be a major impediment to its federalization plans<\/a>, which they hope to soon remove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine hates Hungary too, but only because Orban refuses to arm it, continues purchasing energy from Russia, and has occasionally obstructed EU funding for this former Soviet Republic. In response, Ukraine has weaponized the Druzhba oil pipeline<\/a> from Russia upon which Hungary relies to a large degree to pressure him into reversing his policies, but to no avail. Ukraine also colludes with the Hungarian opposition, which is now Ukraine\u2019s and the EU\u2019s joint proxy, in their Russiagate conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US\u2019 interests are the opposite of the EU\u2019s and Ukraine\u2019s in that Trump 2.0 wants Orban to win re-election and that\u2019s why Trump himself and Vance both endorsed him. The National Security Strategy<\/a> calls for supporting like-minded conservatives in Europe as part of the administration\u2019s plans to avert the continent\u2019s \u201ccivilizational erasure\u201d brought about by its ruling liberal-globalist clique. For the US, Hungary represents a viable alternative for Europe, one whose model it hopes will be emulated by others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of the four foreign parties with stakes in the \u201cBattle for Hungary\u201d, Russia\u2019s are the least. It supports Orban\u2019s pragmatic approach<\/a> to the Ukrainian Conflict<\/a> and views Hungary as a valuable partner in Europe. More than that, however, Putin believes that Orban can help repair Russian-EU relations sometime after their proxy war in Ukraine ends. While certainly game-changing if it occurs, this scenario is admittedly unlikely, ergo why Russia isn\u2019t meddling in his support despite conspiracy theories to the contrary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, it\u2019s Hungarians who have the greatest stakes in this \u201cbattle\u201d since they\u2019ll be the ones who\u2019ll live with the consequences, and they\u2019ll likely support keeping Orban in office. Under his latest term that began in 2022, he prevented an economic crisis by maintaining energy imports from Russia, and he also ensured Hungary\u2019s security by keeping it out of the Ukrainian Conflict. Its sovereignty has also been strengthened too. His deposal would therefore be disastrous for Hungary\u2019s objective national interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If he forms the next government, however, then it can\u2019t be ruled out that the EU and Ukraine will order their opposition proxy to launch a Color Revolution<\/a>. After all, they invested so much in trying to get rid of him that it makes sense to desperately stage one last very dramatic effort to that end on the false basis that \u201cRussian meddling\u201d helped him win. This doesn\u2019t mean that they\u2019ll succeed, but they can still inflict lots of damage to their country as a form of EU and Ukrainian punishment against the Hungarian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was originally published on\u00a0Andre Korybko<\/a>\u2018s Substack account and is republished with the author\u2019s permission.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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